The Leonard Lopate Show, a cornerstone of WNYC Radio, continues this summer with its remarkable Underappreciated summer reading series. The mission of this very fine weekly series is "to explore underappreciated and forgotten works of great literature." Today's guest was Deborah Eisenberg, who spoke brilliantly about the NYRB Classic Memoirs of an Anti-Semite by Gregor von Rezzori.
Listen to Deborah's interview as well as to previous Underappreciated shows and maybe you'll discover a book you didn't already know. And, be sure to listen to previous shows about NYRB authors Eileen Chang, Stefan Zweig, Richard Hughes, and James Hogg!
Hooray for Deborah Eisenberg for reminding us of this wonderful book. And let me point out, in case any Rezzori fans in the publishing world are listening, that his last great work of fiction, still unfinished when he died but published in a version edited by Tilman Spengler, still awaits translation and publication in this country. Even though the manuscript of CAIN is incomplete, it's a fascinating read, and the book is structured as an accumulation of fragments, so its truncation at the end doesn't seem so odd. It's a sequel to his wonderful novel THE DEATH OF MY BROTHER ABEL.
Posted by: Susan Bernofsky | September 02, 2008 at 12:07 PM